Yesterday was a busy day filled with madness for me but I forced myself to take some time off from my sleep to pot up the three bare-rooted (naked!) plants up. It was 2 am in the morning when I started planting the already-asleep-pitcher-plants. I hope I did not wake these babies up! The plants were planted inside a perlite base and with some wet sphagnum moss on the surface.
Three different species of pitcher plants I ordered are shown in the picture below - the leftmost is N. macrovulgaris, the plant in the center is N. albo-marginata and the plant at the bottom is N. bellii. They look really cute, don't they? How I wish they stay at this size forever!
Nepenthes, as we all know, will grow a lot bigger than the sizes you shave just seen inside my terrarium. That will take some time as they will need to establish themselves first.
Jason and Justin (young members from GCS) had their fluorescent tube set-up where they grew pitcher plants featured in the papers recently. I believe the trio above will not die on me since there is a already success story - I ought to find out more and learn from the duo.
At present, I felt the light intensity of my set-up isn't sufficient. Will keep all of you updated on how the plants are faring. Hope they do not die on me!
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What do you feed them when they are planted indoors and inside a terrarium?
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